STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - We asked Angela to tell us about her courtship, proposal and wedding.

"I met Ed on a blind date. We dated for about eight months when, on Black Friday [the day after Thanksgiving], he came into Toys R Us on Richmond Avenue, where I was assistant manager, and suggested we go to lunch. I argued with him because it was the busiest day of the year, but he persisted and I gave in. We were sitting in the car in the parking lot when he handed me a little box that contained an engagement ring.

"The most beautiful thing was right after he gave me the ring, he told me to go back to work, 'because now I have to talk to your father'. Ed later told me, when he informed my father that we were going to marry, my father hugged him, which was quite unusual. My father hugged his family and no one else.

"We were married at St. Peter's by Father Collins who baptized both our daughters, Donna and Jennifer. We had an old-fashioned Italian reception at Chateau Dominique at which we had the Al Lambert Orchestra. Father Collins, also, baptized our daughters, Donna and Jennifer, who have given me the motivation to do the things I'm working at and to be a part of the On Your Mark family.

"I will soon be married 28 years. I feel lucky to have met Ed. As a person and a nurse, he is very supportive of all my activities and has given me the lead way to study to be an interpreter for the deaf. He is sensitive to the needs of our children and to my mother, who lost my brother on 9/11 and then my dad."